♪ ♪ ♪ i have the feeling >> all right, it is friday, may 24th, thank you veryth, much fort waking up with us atat 6:00 this morning on fox 5 the5 morning news.rning news it's going to be a very busy day. >> i got a good feeling. >> i got a good feeling as well. >> we are trying to get youryour memorial day weekend off to a a great start. >> you can hear him there. deejay cord bavera. baver he has been live in studio and has been spinning tunes for more than ten years, he is going tooo be here all morning long and wee have enjoyed his music to far, excellent. >> we get on the holiday weekend rogue with deejay. deej before we feet to tucker, tk this is some new video that we e just got into fox 5. last night's storm caused thisds

tree to come down causing on thh prospect street in northwest t.c. that gives you an indication off what went on last night as far t as the weather is concerned nn not so much fun last night. who needs a club at midnighn when you can have one in the morning. >> pretty big thunderstorms lasa night, in fact, the severe sevee thunderstorm warning in the city about 11:00. >> uh-huh. >> and pretty impress sieve impe rainfall amounts.am sprinkles this morning, andng, d light showers, these will stickk around, we will see periods and peaks of sunshine. we will start to get breaks butu more clouds. and out to frederick and manassas a couple of lightight showers, that is about it. is ai here with the temperatures, 65em at reagan national.

look at the 40s, not too far away, in the 40s right now 44 at the moment in pittsburgh, and 40 up in detroit.troit unseason plea cooler ai plea cos moving in. we will have details coming up.p time to check in with julie wright. i'm sure it's very busy, but ifi it's not now it will be. it >> reporter: i got in honor, happy memorial day weekend.end. i'm ready for the three daye weekend because he just graduated. >> congratulation.>> c unfortunately with the good comes the bad.y here is the bad news on the ramp to go on 270, an accident one oe car off the road into the woodss so the ramp is open, but boy s there's activity to see as you u work your way. way. let's hop on the cameras, let's, see what else is on the roads. d as wisdom is talking about. abo. it's starting to fee get busy h

southbound lanes are open, 14th street and still tied ill t up with a sink hole. hole. northbound the lanes are ar blocked, and southbound the so lanes are open.e open. and folks headed on route 50, a spot that is going to be heavili traveled later today. right now it's clear. cear. that's a fox 5 on time traffic.. a dramatic video, look at at this out of washington state.at. investigators are trying toat figure out whator caused a fourr lane bridge to collapse duringoe the rush hour. officials questioned a truck driver who is believed big rig g to have hit the bridge, no word if that contributed to the crash. the bridge was built in 1955 and has an efficiency rating of 57 out of 100.t of 1 that is well below the statewid average of 80. of 80. they will be looking into that. here at home it could be be days before we know what causedd a parking garage in bethesda to

collapse. >> one construction worker was s killed examine another is in in seriouser-- and another one is condition following the accident. a concrete slap weighing 25 tonh fell on top of them. >> came out and got in my car cr and drove right behind me. as i went around, i heard a cloud sound. i just stopped, because it waset pretty loud to see when what was going on and i didn't realize ii was the parking, you know, know garage that had collapsed. coll >> it took rescuers hours to to free the man. man. officials say about 20 other otr steelworkers were in the garaget at the time of the dent but they were not hurt. a suspicious death of an alexandria man is being called a homicide. that is the report from the the medical examiner. julian dawkins was shot during a confrontation with a deputy. dey that deputy craig patterson wass questioned and released. rele he is on administrative leaveisl while the police continue to investigate. dawkins family and friends want

patterson arrested and charged d with murder.with you know, millions of people are expected to take advantage of the memorial day weekend witn a trip out of town. fox 5's lauren demarco hasrh started her trip out of town, but, of course she is still at t work. >> she is going to have to takee another one, because she has too do this live report at kent island. she has a closer look at the holiday travel. >> reporter: how i scored this story out here in the water, it's beautiful. a lot of feces headed over the h bay bridge and it's expected to be busy because we have the commencement ceremonies. if you are expected to depo outo out, head out early.earl. the national average $3.62, that is two higher than last year. take a look at hole number locan the district. $3.70.$3.70.

in virginia $3.40. i want to talk about the planese if you are traveling in the skies, planes, trains and busesd when you add those numbers and everyone that is expected on the road, the amount of folksfolks traveling for the memorial dayiy weekend dropped 1% from last oml year. if you traveled last year, youao should have a pretty good sense of what to expect over the summer. 208 million people expected topp fly.ec that is up 1% from last year. 87% of seats will be filled.. now, back to the roads, if you are heading out this morning across the pay bridge, the th recommendation is to leave before 10:00 a.m., and or afterr 10:00 p.m., that is the same for sunday and monday.sund but if you'reay travelinging tomorrow, it's even more extreme, they have been recommending that you leave before 7:00 a.m. after 5:00 p.mp those are the best travel timess to try to avoid all of that traffic. be sure to fill your car with wh plenty of gas because you don'to want to get stuck, sarah and

wisdom. god advicgood advice. two separate earthquakes tot tell you about. one here and another one overseas. we got the deejay in thethe house. he is spinning tunes for us this friday morning. a little of jay, one more chance. don't turn that dial. give us one more chance for ther rest of the morning.f the we will chat with mim later. pla 

 february 22nd. a landmark transportation bill is up for consideration in the virginia legislature. even though it's backed by republican governor mcdonnell, tea party republicans refuse to support the plan.

but terry mcauliffe thinks this is too important a time for partisan politics. mcauliffe reaches out to democrats and urges them to support the bill. and the bill passes. terry mcauliffe. putting virginia first.

there's been several after b shocks following an earthquake t in california. califor it centered greenville which is 15 miles northeast of sanford.

overseas a powerful 8.6 earthquake could have been feltt thousands of miles. in moscow thousands of miles from the epicenter people were evacuated. tremors are rare in moscow, the last one was recorded in 1977. 9 the mayor of moore, oklahoma is suggesting that stormm shelters be required in new homes, but that may be a bit off a hard sell.d the cost of the shelters remains the biggest deterrent. not a single state and not many communities require stormrestorm shelters in new homes. if you are headed to theou e beach this holiday weekend, youy know, we got news for you. >> coming up forget the price pe tag when it comes to sunscreen. a look at how the most popular brands stack up against the target and wal-mart knockoffs. we are back after this. the time is 612 enclosing. 6:12. pla o

yeah. welcome pack on this friday, our deejay chord in the house. today we got. got. >> i'm over here.r her >> i'm sorry, i'm lost. i like that music.music. let me listen a little bit moree while we get tucker over here. >> he is in his element. >> we will talk with de88 chord hdeejaychord.c he has 1 event at cobalt. >> and he has a small suitcase.u >> he travels light. >> it's the way to do it these days, light traveling. >> yeah. >> just too good to be true, lauryn hill back in the day. >> the forecast this weekend. wk >> oh, yeah. it's going to be sunny and bright. cool weather, i mean, a littlean bit , cool for the pool. ocean city is going to be on thn cool side but it's going to beoe sunny and bright and the barbecues, you're going to to concerts, baseball games, that a kind of thing it should be sho

perfect for it. it. no complaints. >> good. >> don't forget about operationp rolling thunder.r. >> 65 reagan national, 65 in annapolis, these temperatures, believe it or not, you're're looking at the high temperatures for the day.day. we're not going to budget abudg whole lot as the cooler air continues to merge in from the m north and west and that is goinn to hold temperatures for thees o next couple of days, and look at 50s, we're breaking out in the e 50s to the north and to the west. west. hagerstown 56, and 4 this morning in winchester. all right, we do have a few left over showers and we're seeing additional showers kind of blossom out to the west.we certainly enough to wet thenougw roadways in a few spots. spots. we will see scattered showers ss from time to time today. we are still dealing with a pack end of the cold front.ld the main event was last night. and that is part of the area ar severe thunderstorms, that has pushed up to morning are, but we still have the back end of thish energy spill out to the west ann another sort of the secondary sa cold front moving in there eastt of pittsburgh. we're going to be in and out of

the clouds today. tay. we're going to keep the cool col temperatures with highs only iny the mid-50s. later tonight and tomorrow, ther forecast, and it's all aboutll b high pressure which will give ue plenty of sunshine, but a coolcl weekend with high pressure pr building in from the north andod west. we're going to be talking aboutt temperatures, only about 70ly ab tomorrow with a pretty good good breeze. sunday, and monday, things will start a gradual warm up. up. we will be on the cool side fori the weekend. otherwise deplore yous looking conditions foglorious lookingcow days. gradual clearing tonight, and ad much more cooling tonight. there's the weekend forecast, beaches will look good, it will cool down at ocean city with highs only in the 60s, warming up to the 70s by monday. we could do 90 about the end ofd next week.t we will be warming it up big tile. all right, that is weather. let's do traffic and get to julie on the roads. what about the carolina beaches.

>> i can work on those for you. >> reporter: just curious. >> are you. >> you don't need a personal forecast or anything. >> reporter: i am saying that t folks on 95, heading out 295 later today. i can assure you the water i don't think it's going to bego t warm whether you're in the south carolina or ocean city. ci right now what we're looking atg is a lot of water, west of heree in montgomery county.ery we have a portion of the road o that is under water. you know what we can say, if you encounter high standing water,wa don't drown, turn around. ar don't make an attempt to travelr through this area.hrough we do are police, skyfox is blocking the roadway. let's pop up the cameras, let's, show what you else we have onha the highway this morning. southbound i-95, checking for accident activity as you come across the au q qua con, the a e

are keeping a close eye here. a lot of people are going to beo headed out in this direction, de not only headed to the baye bay bridge but because of the navala academy graduation ceremony that is taking place tomorrow and commissioning. it's like a lot of traffic off ralph boulevard, right now now you're good to go. new hampshire avenue is where wi had the trouble spot at adelphi road. again, heads up headed north, southbound lanes are open from the beltway toward the d.c. line. that's a check of fox 5 on time traffic. tra julie, thank you very much., as many of us plan to traveo this summer, some won't be ablee to kickback on vacation this year. coming up next we will go to fox 5 business network in new york to explain why. we will take a look at whatt is happening around the t.c. region. public schools in the district and most in virginia are set too open. the fishing pier will be openin this morning i have for the first time since hurricane sandy. annual tradition rolling thunde

makes its way into town. wn. the motorcycle group will hold a candle vigil at the memorial. me and you can see those goin at myfoxdc.com. back after this. ♪

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a list of the best sun screens on the market, but firse are you work this memorial day if so, you're not alone. lauren simonetti with fox's news. >> happy friday.>> h i'm not working. working. i'm not working on monday. the markets are closed and i'm m getting paid to not be here. >> you're lucky. >> i am lucky.cky. the united states does not have a law stating that companiesom must give their workers a a certain number of paid vacationa days or paid holidays. in a report from the center forr economic and policy researchcy e which looked at 21 differentffet nations many of them advanced

economies like the u.s. lovelove they are giving paid time off in. france workers get, you know how many days off, they get paid pad vacation off.on off. >> one week, two weeks. >> france. >> 30. >> >> 30. >> 30 weeks? >> in the uk. . >> no, days, days. >> okay. >> i was going to say. [ laughter ] [ >> and in the uk, they get 28t 8 paid vacation days a year, you u know the u.s. stands it in star contrast to that. that >> real quick, let's talk about this. this whole business of sunscrees because a lot of times peoples e think the more expensive ones os are better than the generic brands that you see in wal-mart and target?an >> not the case in the latest le report by consumer reports. they looked at 12 different sunn screens and guess who got the e top score, target brand name sunscreen, it sells for under ur $7 and wal-mart sunscreen came e in at number two and it sells for $7.50.

you can see the top six from frm consumer reports. you don't have to shell outell $20 for a good sunscreen,en, obviously, if you're payingaying attention to this. this. >> sarah, tucker and i get ready to go get our sunscreen it's cheap. >> baby oil is cheap. >> did you say we were cheap. >> i said baby oil is very cheap, you're not supposed to put baby oil on. on. >> you're not?'r >> i didn't know that. [ laughter ] >> i will use the baby oil for sun now. [ laughter ][ >> good to see you. you. have a great weekend. week >> i pulled a girl on you. that was a girl comment.. sorry, wisdom.wi >> sarah will explain. >> thanks, sarah. have a good weekend. yeah, no, if you want to get the deep brown tan, you know knw like julie wright talked about,b use the baby oil, unless you're' just like me, you're covering i all up, will you be fried.

still ahead, rgiii puts on n quite a show at redskins park.pa we will be hearing from him on n his road to recovery. as we head to preak break sx showing us remnants of last night's flooding. a little flooding, we're going to check the friday commute and your memorial day weekend forecast coming up next. 

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>> it's right there. >> that is great. i >>s thank you for getting up an coming here and playing for usiu this morning. >> absolutely. >> tell us how you got into to this. you have been doing this for ten years. >> i have been doing it for fun for friends and they seem tom to appreciate it and they asked me back. eventually i got paid for it about three years ago, people pp started paying me for it. >> wow. >> kind of built into a little subcareer, i have a 9-5:00 and9: then i do this at night. nigh >> good for you.>>fo >> we talk about this. this. you have how many songs in here. >> probably over 10,000. 10,0 >> even with that, sometimeses someone will come in and stump you. >> what do you do.do you >> out of luck. >> you try, you try. try. >> sometimes if i don't have ite maybe it's a good reason i don' have it, you know, it comes in n handy every now and then. people ask for the electrictric slide and i don't have it, sorry. >> i'm not doing the electric slide. >> tell us what do you like to play then, you have just about everything on here.

>> yeah, i do for beeping, i i look pop and dance, getting people to dance, and the energy from a crowd, when you get people dancing they're having aa great time sing along, there's, nothing like it. it's a great energy, so i do ad lot of dance, a lot of retro, r and b, is a lot of pop, and fun stuff. >> i know we were talkingng earlier. you kind of do this thing goingo into summer called the pop up where you kind of try to decide what the hot song is going too be. what is this about? >> we set up a 316 bracket. they pick 16 songs. so we started three weeks ago. ago. they each go head-to-head ono-hn facebook, and we narrow themrro down, and people vote on them.tm and we had the final round last night, so i have a winner. >> can you announce it, or is is that tonight?that >> no, no. we can nannounce it. >> it's going to be the bigbig summer song.. >> the summer song is ico a pop,

it's a song that has been around for a long time and people areop loving it. it's gaining a lot of spee stea. we will talk with you more.o we have been enjoying the music. >> can you stay here all day. >> can you follow me around inad the car and play for me. me >> the personal play list musicc that she walks around. aroun >> time to check in with tucker barnes and get a little bit of t weather for us.. hi, we got a couple of rainshowers left over. over still dealing with a few leftlet over showers moving through theu city to the north and west out toward great falls and reston ae you work into the montgomeryntge county and a few showers.. not quite done with the done w rainshowers, we will havewill he scattered showers for yourr friday. it's not going to be a great grt looking day.ooki we have a lot of clouds andnd cooler temperatures here to stay. highs in the mid-to upper 50s, 0 current temperature reagan national is, and i am going tomo give way. wa 66 at reagan national, and bwi i

marshall is 64 degrees. here is your forecast for todayr and again, we're going to be mostly cloudy this afternoon afo with a couple of showers outowet there and cool, winds are going to pick up out of the north andn west, it will be breezy as welle things are looking great thisres weekend. saturday, sunday and monday looks fantastic, it will be onlo the cool side.cool we will have details on that. tt let's get the latest on trafficr and let's do it the road. road. julie. >> reporter: visit cia toyota.com. and when i stand over there@, i know it's coming. i move on the west side of the deejay and i forget all about tu our fox 5 wazers are checking in with us this morning. a typical delay as you continue on the outer loop of the beltway leaving new hampshire avenueue heading toward georgia. ge no accident to report. re and for those headed downtown, you will find that delays areare open as well. basibehaving nicely, and for fok

coming in, waze is a free app on your mobile phone. ph to join go to your app store,str log on to waze and download down their app and join our group the fox 5 wazers. let's go to the cameras, lanesas are open on the southboundouthud section of i-95, folks headed to 295, and 64 you're good to go. northbound that, is where we has the accident activity, head head across the aqu occoquan. you will find delays, as youas u continue on 395 at duke street. that's a check on fox 5 on timee traffic. the irs is closed today. it's the first of five furloughl days due to sequester cuts.cuts meanwhile we have learned that lois lerner has been placed on administrative leave. le it comes after her appearance at capitol hill where she pled the 5th when asked approximate thabout thetargeting of conserve

groups. president obama is scheduled to speak at 10:00 a.m.10:0 there won't be the traditional i flyover by the fle blue angels n because of sequestration cuts. s michelle obama is going to stop by an elementary school. the program uses the arts to bolster academic success in poor neighborhoods. all right, time now for thet morning line, it appears that rgiii his recovery is ahead of schedule. at yesterday's ota the skin's bluefield, he has come a long way. griffin says there's two phases left in his rehab and we're talking about explosive explos sprinting and cutting. cutt the knee feels great. gr i'm able to do all the stuff ouu there without any hesitation. that is the best part about it.. i'm excited about that and it's all about having that confidenc and if you put the work in, you

know, you will have that have confidence when you get back ouu on the field. the fie it's about playing like you wer never injured.neve all right, switching gears to the baseball diamond now. no. the nationals returned home from a 10 game road trip to start a a weekend series with the phillies tonight. now the first pitch in that game is set for 7:05. hopefully bryce harper gets a a nap before the game because beca hours ago he tweeted just woke u upst from a nap pretty much, its 2:15 a.m. and i'm wide awake, ak hash tag the worst.g if u up, you should turn it on n and watch fox 5 morning news. just turn it on. that does it for the morning line. sarah, back to you. i know, he should. maybe he is watching right now wisdom. >> could be. after the break, the wolfwof pack is back, and so are the the muscle cars. cars. two fasts mak make the retue they worth your money.

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♪ ♪ deejay chord right now onon this friday. deejay chord bezerra. i love his last name. but easier to say dj chord. chd. he will be here through theugh e morning hours.urs. he will spinning us into thethe weekend, and we enjoy having him here. we will check in with him againh in just aim bit.bit. meanwhile, we're getting the holiday weekend started off at the box office. office. >> yeah, good to see you kevin n mccarthy here to talk about the movies that weekend.end i have been at the show five years and always honored to be at the desk. >> this is incredible, i feelnc, pumped up this morning.mo

>> it's the adult table n the >> the movies coming out this weekend, it's like the sequel se except for the fast and the furious. what do you think about thist ts one. >> i'm a huge fan of the series. these are movies that are so implausible, but they're so muc fun to watch.un you have to go and turn your yor brain off.in fast five was the best in the series. you rarely see films get betterr as they go on. grant it the second fast and furious, and the third one let'e forget about those altogether. i would depo five bein goify be. and you bring the rock and it completely elevates the game. this became an insanely fun movie. the characters are engaging. this time around the rock's character he plays a character go hoff.go he goes to the fast and furiousi and he says i will give you guys full pardon, you can go back tok the united states, if you helpi on this job and take down this

back guy. and it's just a fun ride. if you can turn your brain off,, and not be about that all that t is impossible. imp cars can't really flip, well, yes they can. justin lin is a brilliant director in the sense that he he does a lot of practical effectss versus cgi. when you see cars flipping in fi this movie, they're really flipping. when you see a tank crushing aga car, that tank is reallyreal crushing a car. car. there's realistic, sure there's cgi involved at some point butoi you have to be able to turn your brain off. will say this, i didn't know iff they would be able to top the bank vault scene on 5 when they are dragging the vault, theyvauh did. the tank seen i was doing back flips in my chair. it's so much fun. fun. my only problem with the film, there's two issues, it starts slow, and the last action scenen which deals with the plane which you have seen in the trailer,e

the cargo plane, too unrealistic. that one bothed me. bothered it. i gave 3.5 out of 5.of 5. part 3 we're only on 3, and they're trying to make it to 6.o >> i look at the hang overseeries likoverseries as th. the one shot well. well two completely unnecessary, unfunny basically a remake it ra was awful, awful movie. mo instead of a tattoo it was --s - instead of a tiger it was a monkey. and vegas it was a bangkok. it was the same film. this movie is a departure fromfm that formula, but the problem is it's too dark. first half of the movie is awkward, violent, dark, unfunny.

i didn't find it to be funny whatsoever and then it turns into this hilarious no, sir tajc movie when they get to vegas.ve. >> so they should have never left vegas. >> yes, it's too allen centered, i love him but he is only good in supporting role, he is not good when they focus on him in i the lead. if you saw due date, it was the same. they were forcing his odd humorr but it works in smaller doses. i gave the movie 2.5 out of five, leading to the credits. there's a scene at the end that is the fu funniest thing that ty have done in the series. the sad part is it's in the end credits. imake sure you stay after the te

credits. nowhere near hang over 1.1. the credit sequence will makeile you die. 2.5 out of 5 for the movie. the credits are really funny. fu >> i will be back next week. bdk. >> you're here. >> you can check it out there. h i sat down with the entire fastt and furious crew. >> thanks,. tucker over to you. and let's get to the beach c forecast. headed to the ocean or to one that is headed down to ocean ocn city. we focus on ocean city. of course, the beach is up andp down the eastern seaboard itd will generally be in good shape. it's going to be cool, plenty of sunshine, saturday and sunday, d it will be cool and breezy. br your daytime highs tomorrow only about 60 to 52 degrees tomorrowo in ocean city.in oce and we will warm it up into thee low 70s by monday. a little cool, water temperature still a little cool, too, only in the low 60s, 63 degrees, otherwise it's going to be a toa great weekend and how can anything go wrong when youn you regular go the beaches. beac we have cooled overnight. ovnigh

hey kevin. kevi 66 in washington, he is givingt, the review after the review. re. 59 in frederick, 54 in hagerstown, and much, much cooler as we moved overnight. ov it's going to be a cool day, mid-to upper 50s. 50s. winds out of the west,, 5-10 miles per hour gusting to o 15. it's going to be a breezy day y today and a breezy one tomorrow. the breezes will be with us forr the next couple of days as a big area of high pressure moves in from thegh north and west. rainshowers blossom again. bss we had the big thunderstorms last night with down trees anddn of course a severe thunderstorm warning here in the city.e city and some left over showers at ov this hour. so we will see scattered showers from time to time today. it's just not going to be a to a great looking day, a lot of clouds and kind of gloomy outmyt there today.re as we get into the nighttimeme hours, a great looking weekend.e saturday, sunday, and monday, md sunshine, nice conditions,ition, breezy conditions expected. we will get up into the mid-70s by monday.0s so all of the -- depo for it.

-- go forr it. it should be beautiful.autiful. >> tucker, thank you. apologize there was a lostiw talking while you were doing, a lot going on. >> hi, good morning, everybody.v guess what it's time for. f. >> what time? >> too-too doo-doo! doo- >> time for ask tony and tuckerr the most popular segment onent television. this is the segment when tuckerr and i put our heads together too answer your qeaz. questions. sometimes it's not just us.t's t we are joined by our friend frie telling us what is going on in g the sky and there's a lot going on. greg bedford, professor of astronomy. a >> happy memorial day weekend. did you notice we up gradedd the music a little bit. >> yes, i did.did. >> it's dj friday, star trek scene. >> i think you had to put int that request earlier. >> dog gone. >> so for astronomers budding

astronomers and regular peoplel like us. >> yeah. >> an exciting couple of weeks. >> if we can get the crowd godsd to part the skies there. >> we should be in good shape. clear skies sunday, and monday. >> starting today for the next five days, we have a beautifultl alignment for the threee brightest planets the sky. sky. people go outside and they go and face the west northwest,nort they're going to see venus,s, jupiter and mercury. m this is going to be the bestbest alignment of the three bright planets until 2026. so the neat thing about this, guys is that every single day,i, they can walk outside at the same time and see the planets pn move in the sky. sky. you're getting to see the solara system clock work. wo could we lose the banner at the bottom so we can see everythingr >> the order is going to be. i'm confused. when i'm looking to the northwest.

>> the brightest planet is going to be venus. the next brightest planet is jupiter and the third brightestt is mercury. merc they're all fairly bright, you g can't miss them. >> what is elnar that's the nam' of a star. star you will see venus, it's 14 it'1 light minutes away, and then yon look at mercury and it's only 9 light minutes away and you lookk at jupiter 59 light minutes awa or half a billion miles. we're loo looking at the planetn the opposite side of the sun and they're moving every single night. on saturday night we are going to have a bright compact circle hold your thumb out at arms distance, all three planets wil fit inside of your thumb. thum that's a tight group. on monday, bright jupiter andpi generavenus will be next to each other. pay attention to the road if see

it. don't be driving and look at lot that. we want people to be safe in in seeing this. >> some of the configurations co you will be able to see with. w. >> the naked eye. >> the neighboring eye.g eye. >> naked eye as well, but in binocularstion, you wilbinoculaa righrst there. ther >> venus is a nice greenish white.white. jupiter is kind of yellowish, yl and it's been written that 99.9% of the population of earth hashs never seen and recognized mercury as a planet. pl reason being it's the closest planet to the difficult to see, but in this grouping you will be able to, a, there's mercury. >> here is a quick question.que. >> sure. >> any reason to be concernedonb will it opene a chasm to any universe. asteroids, this is nice and safe. an the neat thing, too is when

people are looking at this, is try to imagine a 3-d effect. we are looking beyond the sun. . the sunsets, the pattern d i get it now.it >> i got it. >> the sunsets and the planet is on the opposite side of the sun. you're look ago cross the solar system -- look ago cross the loe solar system to see the planets line up. the earth is orbiting, venus and jupiter is.r we're seeing the clock work of o the solar system every singlesi night which you don't normally see. you walk outside and the stars are there. every night we will see see something move. mo >> it's very, very cool.y cool >> very cool. >> so the planets are there andr but because of the alignment alg this time around, once the sunsets then we can see them. >> about 9:00. >> again, this is the tightest grouping of the naked eye planets until 2026. until >> uh-huh. >> so you know, like the cicadas, every 17 years, this is

every 13 years, try to get outside and see it. >> one more time, how high above the horizon do you i need to look? >> go outside and find a in thae clear horizon, above the the horizon, you're looking at six to seven degrees, and you want toyo go outside like i said, no later than 9:00.an it will still be a little bit bright, but venus, jupiter and mercury are going to be visible because they are so bright. br >> real quick, if somebody like julie wright is coming from the club at 2:00 in the morning the can still see it at 2:00 in the morning. >> not at 2:00 in the morning.r. >> you won't be seeing much period, thank you very much. muh >> and we're on the blog.e on we will have it on the blog.blo. >> check out the blog. >> wttg sky blog. happy memorial day.day. if you have a question you u want answered.swer. >> there's your music. mu ♪

>> very nice. >> if you have a question youstu want answered go to myfoxdc.com and click on the weather tab,ta, live long and prosper. ♪ ♪ >> can you do it? it >> we can do it. it. >> hey, come on, get with it. i. >> i don't know what that meanse >> there's a clock before i come home at 2:00 a.m. [ laughter ] >> dating a volum vulcan, were ? >> every seven years ia vulcan. [ laughter ]] >> reporter: julie take it away. >> reporter: [ laughter ][ >> reporter: i thought i wastht going to have music. music we need some music. mu yeah, not the star trek music, u you know.you kn there you go.go. it's good. i like this. this is fun.is i saw the sign ♪sign ♪ it goes that way ♪. >> reporter: all right, youall guys on the roads this morning, what you are going to find thiss morning is heavy volume on route 50 as the gates have opened up

at 8:00 this morning.this and the gaits to the stadiu gate opening at 7:00 this morning. they are closing off a portion for the mid shipment march that takes place at 8:00.8:00. we're anticipating a lot of traffic. congratulations. quick peek on the cameras, 95 ce still good to go. lanes are open on the top part of the beltway between college w park and 270. and that's a check of fox 5 on timee traffic. we will have more on fox 5 morning news coming up after th break. pla

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good morning, everybody, ayn holly morris. righhot now i know storms are on everyone's mind whether your you

think of the storms that hit t oklahoma and the storms that tht went through our area last night and the new hurricane forecastfe they said is going to be very vy active. the question is, what would youu do? are you prepared? we came to the experts as we we come to the virginia power the regional headquarters in hernnoe onherd nooneherndonthis morningn they will tell us how dangerous electricity is. is. we are going to talk about having an emergency plan and putting together an emergency kit. and the 97fm is doing a teddy bear gathering for the kids in oklahoma.klahoma. >> i'm storm prepared. >> you're prepared, take care of that umbrella and yourself. >> get it under control. cont >> we will check in with you later. holly, thanks so much. mu that does it for the 6:00 hour. now let's send it over to io

the tony and allison to take uss the rest of the way. hang on to your burr berry umbrella.um always. thank you so much. coming up a bridge collapsel into a river sending cars flyini into the water. wat what went wrong and how everyone survived. a holiday hustle begins. what kind of commute can youutey expect today?expe we have a live report straightit ahead.. plus, a historic vote for the boy scouts of america. openly gay scouts will now be allowed, but another ban willwil remain. this morning, we ask folks on both sides live. fox 5 morning news starts rightt now. pla there's a live look outsides at traffic begins to make its is way to the area beaches as